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Trouble for Google in Belgian courts
A copyright complaint was launched by an organization that manages copyright for the Belgian press, and it appears as though they have concerns over Google reproducing articles from French speaking newspapers on Belgian websites. Supposedly Google sells advertising and makes money based on their content.In the ruling the court has ordered that Google pay 1 million euros a day if it does not comply with their order.
The technology in question is Google's news aggregation feature. Simply choose the types of news feeds you wish to compliment your site with, and all relevant news found on the internet, will be aggregated on your webpage. In this instance, Google is only acting as the technology used to port information through, and is not copying and pasting news, calling it there own. A Google spokeswoman has said that Google is disappointed by the decision, believes it is flawed, and there will be an appeal. The spokesperson went on to reference Google's policy to remove any newspapers content from its index if asked.
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Subscribe to commentsericSep 19th 2006 11:09AM
Google use Information made by others (Press) to do their business (sell ads).
it would be the same if Google play music on their web site without paying music sellers (like Warner/Universal).
everything is not free.
frankSep 19th 2006 12:24PM
It is not about the aggregation service.
From what I read, it is about the fact that Google collects all data and makes it still available after the original authors & publishers no longer have it on site. Which would be an infringement of copyright law & database law.